“If you’re one of those. ‘I love Pink Floyd but I can’t stand Rogers politics’ people. You might do well to fuck off to the bar right now” -Roger Waters This is Not A Drill Tour

🇾🇪🇵🇸 Scenes from the million-man march held yesterday in Sanaa, Yemen, in solidarity with the Palestinian people amidst the Israeli violence in Gaza.

Yemen didn’t kill a single person when they were taking over those ships and rerouting them out of the Red Sea.

America killed an entire crew of Yemenis in the water today.

Muslims have always done everything possible to avoid unnecessary killing while America tries to kill as many people as possible and still labels the Muslims as the terrorists. [@/ Laddin_ on X. 12/31/23]

Stop calling Yemenis seizing Israel ships "pirates".

They're soldiers well within their rights to defend their own coastline.

(via. khaledbeydoun)

We have to stand for Palestine!

Stand for what is right and advocate for their rights.

However don't mistake calling out Israeli Government for hatred towards Jews.

Remember there are Palestinian Jews, and that there are Jews that have been discriminated against either in their countries of origin or in Israel, like Yemeni Jews, Burakhan Jews, Kurdish Jews, etc.

man just. sometimes i wonder if some of y'all hear yourselves when you're talking

you can call the UN toothless - it is. you can say the veto power that the US shares with France, China, Russia and the UK is Fucking Bullshit and only reinforces the current hegemony of power and goes against the stated goals of the UN

you can say that the fact the only resolutions the UN has been able to take against the current Palestinian genocide were non-constraining (passed through the general assembly rather than the security council) is one more show of uselessness. that while it shows international support to Palestine, it is simply Not Enough

you can say all of that

you can Not, however, call the UN "puppets"

do you hear yourselves ??? do you fucking hear yourselves, calling an international governmental organ the "puppet" of some nefarious mastermind that just so happens to be defending Israel's interests ?? implying some sort of global control ??

if you want to fight for the rights of people, you cannot - Can Not rely on antisemitic tropes and dog-whistles

You Are Making People Feel Unsafe, Jewish people and other marginalized people who realize you will not hesitate to throw them under the bus if you get the excuse

You Are Reinforcing Dangerous Ideas, ideas that did, do, and will cause people their lives

You Are Not Helping

so i ask once again. do you fucking hear yourselves ?

CONTACT YOUR GOVERNMENT AND DEMAND A CEASEFIRE FOR PALESTINE

For Eu look up:

Voices in Europe for peace

For Usa look up:

US campaign for Palestinian rights

BOYCOTT FOR PALESTINE

FOA (Friends of Al-Aqsa) have organized a boycott in support of palestine. Here are the key companies to boycott:

HP (Hewlett Packard)

Coca-Cola

PUMA

Any produce labelled 'made in Israel'

(Please help to spread the word by sending this copypasta to as many blogs as you can OR going to FOAs website where you can find posters to download and print out)

ive already been contacting my govt and boycotting, thanks

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the primary effect of a blockade is to prevent civilians from accessing basic needs such as food, water, and energy, and as a result blockades are usually considered an act of war and a violation of international law if not authorized by a Security Council vote in accordance with article 42 of the UN charter.

🇺🇸🇾🇪 According to The Washington Post, the Biden administration has reached an agreement with US defense officials to initiate a significant military operation against the Houthis in Yemen.

Houthis continue attacks, hit US destroyer in Red Sea

Members of the Houthi movement “Ansar Allah” claimed a drone strike on a US destroyer in the Red Sea, Almayadeen reports.

On Al-Masirah TV channel, Yahya Saria, a spokesperson for the Houthis, said:

A US destroyer in the Red Sea was attacked with the help of several drones.

In addition, he also reported on the Yemeni navy’s operation against the British ship Islander in the Gulf of Aden. It involved the use of several anti-ship missiles, Saria explained.

The Houthis, who control much of Yemen’s Red Sea coastline, began attacking ships linked to Israel to stop its military actions against the Palestinians in Gaza.

Read more HERE

BREAKING

France, Spain, and Italy back out of American coalition against Yemen.

"No confidence in Biden."

Yemeni blockade on Israeli ships continue, US plans Re sinking.

Última Hora

Francia, España e Italia se retiran de la coalición estadounidense contra Yemen.

"No hay confianza en Biden".

El bloqueo Yemení a los barcos Israelíes continúa, los planes de Estados Unidos se están hundiendo.

(via. IG: khaledbeydoun)

i fully believe that any yemeni zionist should be exiled and not claimed.

okay, if you have ever made or reblogged a “hold your nose and vote for biden” post, this is for you.

here’s the fucking thing about these kinds of posts. i've been seeing them since i first returned to tumblr in, I think, late 2022? they've certainly increased in frequency since october 7, but they were there before too, ready to counter any kind of opposition to biden that has cropped up. many of them are not just trying to educate people about what positive things biden has done, which, like, at least I can understand the motivation behind those ones? but so many of them are directly in response to people criticizing biden, and their only real point is “sure you’re upset at this thing biden did, but have you considered the election?” starting YEARS before the next presidential election, mind you.

and october 7 only made that clearer. i don’t think it had been a week before i saw these posts cropping up. can you not see how fucking ghoulish that is? to look at the rightful pain and anger of those whose relatives and communities are being slaughtered with active american support, to respond to one of the few pieces of agency most americans have in influencing what their governments do – their vote – by saying “yes but trump would be worse.” as if the primary people you’re lecturing – palestinians, muslims, arabs, black people, indigenous people, disabled people, other marginalized people – don’t remember exactly how bad it was under trump!

and even if you think not voting is an empty gesture – something i, who studied political science at a mainstream american lib college, who has worked as a field organizer on a previous democratic presidential campaign and for several policy campaigns, who currently works in public policy in america, used to believe, but have absolutely changed my mind on – what is in no way an empty gesture is saying publicly that you will not vote for someone. the arguments people usually have about why simply not voting is bad are that you can’t tell why someone is not voting, so it is as likely to be apathy or disenfranchisement as it is a political statement. but saying publicly that you will not vote for someone, and why you will not vote for them, absolutely is a political statement, and potentially a powerful one! but you choose to negate and/or ignore that by trotting out the “lesser of two evils” bullshit.

and then there’s the whole “yes but people will DIE under trump”. PEOPLE ARE DYING NOW. even if you’re fucking racist and have decided that palestinian lives don’t count, have you forgotten biden’s ongoing covid minimalism and dismantling of the CDC’s covid research and prevention infrastructure? have you forgotten his increase in spending for law enforcement scant years after the murder of george floyd and his administration's surveillance of protesters, including cop city protesters? have you forgotten his recent ramp-up in deportations of undocumented immigrants, including the active continuation of many trump-era policies?

maybe you have forgotten all those things and do purport to care about palestinians, but you just think that biden is doing his best to influence netanyahu and is getting nowhere! but then you must have forgotten all of the things that biden and his administration themselves have done to further this fucking genocide, including:

continuing to send arms to israel

putting together a military task force within days of yemen’s red sea blockade and attacking yemeni ships

bombing yemen

bombing syria

bombing iraq

vetoing three ceasefire resolutions at the united nations

testifying to defend israel and its genocide and occupation at the international court of justice

refusing to rescue palestinian-americans stuck in gaza

halting funding to the united nations relief and works agency for palestinian refugees (UNRWA) based on israeli claims that 12 of UNRWA’s over 30,000 staff were hamas agents, even though u.s. intelligence has not been able to independently verify this

lying that he’s personally seen photos of babies beheaded by hamas when he hadn’t because they didn’t exist (and even when his own staff cautioned him that reports of beheaded babies may not be credible)

questioning the number of palestinian deaths reported by the gaza ministry of health (when even israel has not questioned them, since they are in fact proud of those numbers)

perpetuating lies about hamas having committed the attack on al-aqsa hospital

questioning united nations reports of adults and children raped by israeli soldiers while claiming to have proof (that no one else has seen) of hamas doing the same

honestly so many more things that i can’t remember them all but others feel free to add

or maybe you haven’t forgotten any of that, and think that you’re still justified in lecturing people about why they should vote for biden, because you genuinely believe trump would still be worse. if that is the case, you have still failed to see that by saying you will vote for biden no matter what, you are part of the problem of biden continuing to act like this. because biden is counting on fear of trump to win him this next election no matter what else he does. despite his appalling polling numbers, despite the knowledge that he is losing the palestinian-american vote, the arab-american vote, the muslim-american vote, the black american vote, the youth vote – despite all of that, he is secure in the idea that he will still win because he is better than trump. can you not see how that allows him to act without impunity? how it becomes increasingly impossible for his base to influence what he’s doing if he thinks that they will be with him no matter what? this is how you make yourself complicit to biden’s actions, by not affording anyone even the slightest power to hold him accountable for anything.

and in most cases, the “hold your nose and vote for biden” thing is the response of people who aren’t even being instructed by others not to vote for biden. it is their response to people saying they themselves are choosing not to vote for biden. fucking ghoulish.

And people keep trying to justify Israel's existence on the basis that it is somehow a safe place for the preservation of Jewish people and their culture and not only is that an awful argument for establishing a Settler Colonist Apartheid State but it's not even true. Like the state is politically and economically dominated by Ashkenazi Jews from Northern Europe and their descendants. While not as severely mistreated as Palestinians, there is still a significant disparity between the European and Non-European Jews in terms of income and education. Non-European Jews are still regularly subject to interpersonal bigotry (hell earlier this year there was a news story about a viral video where Ashkenazi girls in a Purim made a skit mocking the Mizrahi) and Israel government policies towards non-Ashkenazi migrants have done severe damage to their social structure and cultural traditions. Not to mention the fact that the whole reason why many Mizrahi migrated in the first place was to escape the violence caused by European Jews committing atrocities in their name, tearing communities apart as neighbours that had peacefully co-existed for centuries found themselves on opposite sides of this new ethno-religious conflict

There have even been attempts in Israeli history at the forceful assimilation or even biological reduction of non-European Jews; the kidnapping and adoption of Yemeni Jewish children in the 1950s is significant example of the former while the forced contraception of Beta Israeli (Ethiopean Jewish migrants) with the explicit intention of reducing their population's birth rate is an example of the latter. There's also very clear favouritism when it comes to recent converts; white Afrikaner converts are given the right of Aliyah while Nigerian Igbos are not. Like the fact of the matter is that Israel's fundamental nature is as a European Settler Colony, incredibly racist not only towards the indigenous Palestinians but the many Non-European Jews it claims to represent. It's an outpost of Western Imperialism, not a haven for the Jewish people. If it was ever meant to be the latter than it has failed miserably